Horseshoe-spreader.



A. BALLMER.

HORSESHOE SPRBADEE.

APPLIOATION FILED 1330.14, 1910.

1,006,345 f 'Patented Oct. 17,1911

COLUMBIA PLANUGRIAPH C0..w^sHlNu1oN.n.c.

ALBERT IBALLIVIER, OF NAPA, CALIFORNIA.

HORSESHOE-SPREADER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 17, 1911.

Application led December 14, 1910. Serial No. 597,309.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT BALLMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Napa, in the county of Napa and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoe-Spreaders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in horseshoe spreaders, the object being to provide a simple device of powerful leverage for spreading horseshoes of different sizes without the necessity of heating them redhot and lacin them on the anvil.

With t ese o jects in view, this invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing :-Figure 1 is a View in side elevation, Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view showing the tool in the position of expanding a horseshoe, the horseshoe being indicated by dotted lines, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged end elevation.

The two handles l and 2 are pivoted together by means of the bolt 3, and these handles are not crossed, but terminate in outwardly curved or extended members 4 and 5, the latter of which is preferably longer than the former, as illustrated. The shorter member 4'termnates in toothed jaw 6 which projects laterally in each direction from the member 4, as shown in Fig. 3, and the jaw 7 on the end of the longer member 5 projects laterally in one direction only, whereas on this longer member, a second jaw 8 located about midway the length of the member 5 projects in the opposite direction, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. These several jaws are each provided with several gripping teeth 9, 9.

In Fig. 2 is illustrated an application of the tool in actual operation, with the corner teeth of the two jaws 6 and 7 engaging the inner surface of a horse-shoe illustrated in dotted lines and indicated by the letter S. By pressing the handles toward each other,

the heel of the shoe is spread, and if spread sufficiently far, the intermediate teeth 9 roll, as it were, into engagement with the inner surface so that when the corner teeth of the jaws disengage the horseshoe, another adj acent tooth bites it, thus preventing slipping and affording a tight and permanent grip until the shoe is sufliciently spread, and the hold is released by spreading the handles apart, thus withdrawing the jaws from the horse-shoe.

The purpose of the intermediate jaw 8 is readily appreciated. This is provided for smaller sized horseshoes, and as shown in Fig. 3 is lin alinement with one lateral eX- tension of the jaw 6, whereas jaw 7 is in alinement with the opposite extension of aw 6, so that either jaw 7 or 8 is brought into service, as the size of the shoe demands, whereas jaw 6 is used with both of the other aws.

3 It is evident that more or less slight changes might be resorted to without departure from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence I do not wish to limit myself to the eXact construction herein set forth, but- I-Iaving fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A tool for spreading horseshoes, comprising handles pivotally connected together, and terminating on one side of the pivot in outwardly curved member, one member carrying a single toothed jaw which projects laterally in both directions from the member, and the other provided with two toothedjaws, one of which projects laterally on one side of the member and the other located at an intermediate point and projecting in the opposite direction from the other jaw.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT BALLMER. Witnesses:

PEROY S. KING, Mrs. I-I. C. STEELE.

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